Ministry of Education (Rwanda)

The Ministry of Education (MINeDUC, Kinyarwanda: Minisiteri y'Uburezi,[1] French: Ministère de l'Éducation[2]) of Rwanda, previously the Ministère de l'Éducation, de la Science, de la Technologie et de la Recherche scientifique,[3] is headquartered in Kigali.[4] As of December 2017, the minister is Dr. Eugène Mutimura. He was preceded by Dr. Papias Malimba Musafiri, who served in that position since June 2015 - December 2017.[5][6]

Number of schools, students, and staff

In 2017, the estimated population of Rwanda was 11.8 million people.[7] MINeDUC oversees over 13,000 education centers, 93,000 staff, and over 3.6 million students.[7] The primary and secondary schools are organized into 30 administrative districts.[8][9]

MINeDUC Human Resources by School Type (2017)
Levels Schools Students Staff
Pre-nursery 90 5,234 243
Nursery 3,186 220,435 6,812
Primary 2,877 2,540,374 43,906
General Secondary 1,375 531,377 24,561
Technical & Vocational

Education & Training (TVET)

 402 107,501 6,929
General Tertiary 37 80,773 5,196
Adult Literacy 5,160 152,015 6,287
TOTAL: 13,127 3,637,709 93,934
Source: MINeDUC[7]

References
  1. "banner_rw.jpg Archived 2014-10-13 at the Wayback Machine." Ministry of Education of Rwanda. Retrieved on October 8, 2014.
  2. "mineduc_slideshow-7.jpg Archived 2014-10-13 at the Wayback Machine." Ministry of Education of Rwanda. Retrieved on October 8, 2014.
  3. "Home" (French). Ministry of Education of Rwanda. December 3, 2013. Retrieved on October 8, 2014.
  4. "Contact us." Ministry of Education. Retrieved on October 8, 2014.
  5. Times Reporter (25 June 2015). "Musafiri appointed as new Education minister". New Times (Rwanda). Kigali. Retrieved 17 September 2017.
  6. "Dr. Papias Musafiri Malimba and Philbert Nsengimana have been removed from Cabinet". APV. 2017-12-07. Archived from the original on 2018-06-27. Retrieved 2018-06-27.
  7. "Rwanda Education Statistics 2017". Republic of Rwanda Ministry of Education. April 2018. Retrieved June 26, 2018.
  8. "Primary School Districts in Rwanda". Republic of Rwanda Ministry of Education. 2017. Retrieved June 26, 2018.
  9. "Secondary School Districts in Rwanda". Republic of Rwanda Ministry of Education. 2017. Retrieved June 26, 2018.



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